Pound is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 852 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pound is the 298th largest community in Virginia.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.02% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pound has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pound has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pound than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pound may be for you.

Being a small town, Pound does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of Pound are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.15% of adults in Pound have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Pound in 2018 was $19,443, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,772 for a family of four. Pound also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Pound home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pound residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pound include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and British.

The most common language spoken in Pound is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.